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THE FUTURE S? JA j;.: l SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VICTORY FOn THE DAY AT THE FAIR. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Continues Bis New Series of Sermons on "The Proph? ecies of the World's Fair"-Man Needs Even Mere Hoars For Best. NEW YOEE, NOV. 12.-Rev. Thomas Pixon, jr., continued in Association hall this morning the new series of ser? mons on * * The Prophecies of the World's Fair." The subject of the discourse today he called "The Future cf the American Sabbath, as indicated by the Sunday Opening Fiasco." He declared that the action of the fair authorities on this question was the one fly in the ointment of the great exposition. Their thimble rigging policy he declared was a disgrace which came near ruining the fair at a critical period. The work? ing people had repudiated the Sunday opening when accomplished, and the public refused to have it He declared that this conflict which focused the ttfftrmpal sentiment upon the problem for the first time had demonstrated some things pretty clearly-among them cer? tainly that the great truth of the Chris? tian Sabbath-one day Ts rest in se ven has been re-emphasized as a. primal or? dinance of humanity, to whose sanctity ecclesiasticism can add nothing and from whose glory infidelity can subtract nothing. The text chosen was from Mark ii, 27. "The Sabbath was made forman." Jesus Christ was not orthodox on the Sabba th question. The heresy hunters were continuously after him for his failure to comply with the form of cer? n? onial and institutional religion. With special emphasis did the pharisees ac? cuse him of breaking the Sabbath. And they had good grounds for their charge from the pharisaic point of view. Upon this question as upon others he i was a reformer. He was the bearer of j a new light. He did not destroy. He | fulfilled and expounded. He found a i Sabbath buried beneath dead ceremoni alism. He reaffirmed its original divine parp?se. He broke the letter. He kept the spirit. He lifted the day from the degradation of pharisaic form and made it radiant with the beauty and freedom of love. As yet, in America, | while as a nation we- have proved our reverence and loyalty to the day, we have not given the unbeliever the true basis of our-faith. We have haggled over the legalism of a Mosaic statute, while we professed the fuller revela? tion of the Christ. The chief source of conflict upon this question is found in this confusion. THE QUESTION AT CHICAGO. Grave were the fears of the faithful what would be the outcome of a na? tional, struggle on this question at Chicago. At this World's fair, for the first time since the republic was founded, the whole nation came together in one place with one purpose, In the truest sense of the word this fair was repre? sentative. . Nearly 4,000,000 of peo? ple, representing every state and district of the continent, came to one spot, filled ! with the consciousness of a common national pride in a common national j life. The means and the extremes met. j The blood of every nation of earth ? mingles in our veins or yet floats un- j observed upon the surface of our Ufe. We are a composite people, with the ele- ! xnents of composition yet unassimilatcd j in many states. The amalgam is not j yet made. What we will be when it is made does not yet appear. Let us confess that with the reputa- j tion of the west for recklessness on the ? Sabbath we felt sad over the possible ! victory of the lawless element in this ! conflict, coming as it did and when it ! did. The verdict would necessarily be ? national in its bearing. The way this | . question was handled by the directorate j of the fair forms the one serious blot j upon its histor^. It is the one fly in j the ointment of the greatest exposition j the civilized world ever saw. Let us try to remove this in the beginning of our study. The fact is, we have cause for con? gratulation after all, for in the end ' God has taught the nation with a new emphasis a great and solemn lesson. ? The directors were, after all, fallible j men, and in trying to increase their rev enue at the expense of the nation's con? science by opening on Sunday they col lided with the nation's honor, and in ; the hour of a possible peril brought honor and decency to the rescue of a , poorly enlightened conscience. They went before the nation assembled at ! Washington and asked for an appropri- j arion. The Sunday question was sprung I and brought to a finish in confess. | The Sunday observers won an over whelming victory, voicing the unques? tioned sentiment of a vast majority of ! all the people. They accepted the ap- . propriation and promised to close the : fair on Sunday. Then they lied and for the sake of j money opened it. They outraged the sense of honor and decency of the nation. The people would not have it-people who knew little or cared little about the question of opening or not opening . on Sunday did *?are as to whether we should exhibit ourselves as a nation of liars and tricksters. The success of the : exposition was seriously threatened. And before the gathering storm of a nation's contempt the managers re? treated and closed their gates. Then came the enemy and invoked the magic jugglery of the law and the personal equation of the judiciary. Through the legal technicalities of a j local law the gates were again forced open and the managers thus relieved of I the stain of voluntary dishonor. But j the people did not go into the opened gates. Sunday opening continued to be to the last week a conspicuous fizzle. The hue and cry raised by a certain class in behalf of the workingmen proved by actual demonstration to be a fake pore and simple. The working* men did not want the fair opened on Sunday, and titoy did not go when it was ?pened. The thimble rigging i methods of the management on thi question not only failed to deceive, bu failed to give any advantage in the en< to the performers. The managemen have been taught a valuable Jesson that fchere is such a thing as being tex smart. In fact, after the fair they fin< themselves on this question where i very smart couple found themselve after a parade in New York one day as reported by one of the papers : A man and woman found themselve wedged in a crowd in oneof the streets They had come out to see the parade and as things were they could se< nothing. The man had a bright idea "When I give the word. Julia, yot scream and faint." Julia waited. Tho signal came, anc I she flopped over into her escort's anns. ! "Give me air, ' ' she gasped. "Air! air!" cried the man. Tho crowd parted, and tho man anc woman emerged at the front. Thc woman revived, and the pair made readj to enjoy the show. j Just then, however, an ambulance dashed up. Some one had turned in ? signal. "You can't be too -areful aboul these cholera cases," said tho surgeon. .Td better take you both along for in? spection." And they did net see the parade. The wholn truth is, the course of thc management in this fiasco and the bear? ing of our people toward it at every stage of development has made cleai one thing-the nation has rendered a verdict upon the Sabbath question that must tell in shaping our future. ONE DAY'S REST TN SEVEN. In this conflict the people have re? emphasized the truth of the Christian Sabbath-namely, that one day's rest in seven is not the invention of priestcraft, but is the primal ordinance of human? ity, to whose sanctity ecclesiasticism can add nothing, from whose glory in? fidelity can subtract nothing. First, we say they have reaffirmed the true basis of the Sabbath an ordinance ! primal of the human race. The people have said, Moses or no Moses, command? ment or no commandment, Bible or no i Bible, right or wrong, orthodox or heter? odox, whatever dogs and cats may l>e able to do, as for man, tho Sabbath with its rest is to him an absolute ne? cessity of nature ! Such a necessity in? deed that, if God did not establish a Sabbath, he surely committed the crime of creating a being who can not live without one. And this is but a re affirmation of the unvarying record of history. France went mad with rage once against ecclesiasticism. They mistook thc Sabbath for an invention of priestcraft to cheat them out of day. They abolished it by law, only to wake in a short timo from their de? lusion to find that God had founded ti?*? Sabbath in love for man and had writ? ten it in the red blood ot nature's ott nal decree. They found tho f aw of the Sabbath written on their tired hands and feet, in quivering muscle and throb? bing nerves. What any nation of the old world has found a necessity for rest to tho hu? man body is a double necessity to the people of America. While the old world travels one mile we rush ove two. We are a nation of maniacs i rush: and drive. "The pressure of Hf with us is becoming more and more a insanity. Of all the people Gal ha created we should cherish the Sabbath It is the one oasis in the desert of our f ev erish host. It is our one remaining bul wark against the greed of the century. Our lust for gold is taking the hear, out of the nation. The Sabbath is th one pause in the mad rush. It is th\ one hour left when we may return to reason for the moment-gain the con? sciousness of our humanity. Every effort we have made in our national li * to drive through this day with thc rush and roar of tho week has proveo or is proving a failure. Men who are forced to'work on Sundays never give the best service. They break down early. Their overwrought nerves and muscles are the cause of many fatal ac? cidents in which the nation pays life for taking life. NOT THE WORKINGMAN'S WISH. Every attempt to break down the rest of the Sabbath in the name bf the Americar workingman is a subterfuge and a lie. The workingman does not desire to work seven days in the week. The hue and cry set up in his name is the thinly guised hypocrisy of greed crying for the last possible tribute of his muscle and his heart's blood. The men who seek to break down the Sab? bath as a day of complete rest are the enemies of labor; their twaddle on the subject is but the echo of some capital? istic glutton behind the scene who wishes to work them to the last drop of blood in their veins. No class of work? ingmen desire to work on Sunday. A forjl editor of a weekly sheet in New York tried to get up a sensation to sell his paper some time ago by advocating the opening of the theaters on Sunday, j He wrote to all the managers of the theaters and the leading actors and j asked their views. And he got them. But they were not what he had ex? pected. To a man manager and actor denounced the movement. And one ot' the reasons brought forward against it was the fact that Sunday opening in the west had proved itself a curse. : They declared that it made the life of the actor well nigh impossible and did not increase the revenue of the theater, what they gained on Sunday being in? variably lost on the first days of the week, and the extra labor was so much dead loss in the long run. What we need to do for the working? man is more and more to shorten his hours of labor. The world is the gainer by it, directly and indirectly. Thou? sands of street car men are now forced to work from 12 to 15 hours a day, and some of them do not get a Sunday off in a year. Such a system is the quin? tessence of brutality. The workingman is overworked now. What he needs, what he demands and what he will have is fewer hours of work and more days of rest. Ever, . attempt to rob him of the perfect rest cf the Sabbath is a crime against human? ity. Why tho great mass of working? men have not spoken with louder em? phasis upon this question is explained . in part by that awful silence which the heartless grind of toil so often I brings. j BRUTES BETTER TREATED THAN SIEN. j We are kinder to dogs and horses i than we are to one another. We give I the horse the rest needed to prolong his I life and give ns the best possible serv I ice. We pile work on men nntil there ! is no heart power left to drive the tired j muscle. The world is nm by heart power, not horsepower, whether in man ' or beast. We forget this. I Mr. Montagne Williams has given ns a description lately of that pathetic si? lence that hangs over this overwrought world of muscle. He describes a cheer? less room in London where a man and his wife were working "for dear life*' at their respective occupations, while the youngest of the six children dozed away the minutes in a corner and the older ones were silently "helping fa I ther. ' * ""The woman was making button. j holes in a heap of waistcoats, and the j husband bent over a bench, stitching uppers to boots. No one spoke, no one looked up even for a glance from the window, and aft? er standing some time in silence the visitor ventured to address some cheer : ful commonplace to the man. The ! latter, however, neither 6poke nor moved an eyelash. The remark was repeated, but still there was no an? swer. Mr. Williams, believing the j man to be deaf and dumb, turned an inquiring look on the wife. "What's the matter?" ho asked. "Oh, " said she. "he's got no time to talk. Every minute is precious to him. All that lot of uppers has got to be fin? ished by 10 tonight, and took back, and then he'll bring me and the little uns a bite of food. If he wastes even five minutes to jaw, maybe he'll be too late to deliver the work, and we'll have nothing to eat afore tomorrow, unless I take half o' my work back. " : She spoke uncomplainingly, as if such a state of things were quite to be ex? pected. When her own sewing was hurriedly finished she drew a quick breath of relief, wrapped tho waist? coats in a ragged bit of paper, slipped an old shawl over her head and hastened out, still in silence, to carry home her work. Did the wretched family ever have time to speak? It almost seemed as if dead silence were there the rule of Ufe. And in face of worldwide facts like these there are men who write about the workingman's desire to see the wheels of this big world move round seven days in seven, and pose as his champion in every effort made to break his Sabbath's rest. Second-We do not hesitate to ac? knowledge-and hasten to add that we are glad of it-that in this con? flict ecclesiastical tradition has failed to make out a case. We have not got a Sabbath because we have the Ten Commandments. This commandment is merely the first crude translation on stone of the great law that had existed from the eternities. Our Sunday does not rest on the commandment letter of the Jewish ritual. If so. we celebrate the wrong day and utterly fail to fulfill the letter of the law. The Sabbath of the Mosaic ritual is our Saturday. No man who knows anything about the subject has ever disputed it. We do not keep the Sabbath day because wc are commanded in so many words *o keep a specific day. WHY WE KEEP THE SABBATH. Wo keep the Sabbath day because it is our privilege-a God given and Christ given one-of resting one day in seven. .'The Sabbath was made for man," said Jesus. It was God's gift of love to his tired children. The Sab? batarian zealot who would restore the formalism of a pharisee's Sabbath is the enemy of Jesus Christ, for-he is the follower of them who slew Lim. Nor is the man who would restore the gloom and the absurdity of the early Puritanic Sabbath in this day any less the enemy of true Christianity. The life of our stern ancestors, while it had elements of heroic strength, had about its religion a narrowness, a big? otry and a meaness that it were better to forget than seek to perpetuate. Listen : In a book in which Jonathan Trumbull recorded the minor cases he tried as justice of the peace is this entry : "His Majesties Tithing man entered com- ; plaint against Jona, and Susan Smith, that on the Lord's day, during divine service, they did smile." They were found guilty, and each was fined 5 shil tings and costs. But it was the "small boy" whos. behavior in the meeting house provoked the Puritan elders to groan in chorus, "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child." The boy behaved badly because he , was seated with other boys, instead of with his fathe and mother in a family ? pew. They were herded together on ? the pulpit and gallery stairs, and tith- ! ingmen and constables were appointed ; to watch over them "and see that they behave themselves comelie and use , such raps and blows as meet. ' ' In ono parish it was ordered in town meeting "that there bc some sticks set 1 up in various places in the meeting house and fit persons by them and to use them." It is this spirit carried into the inter- j pretation of Scripture that lias done so much hurt to the cause of Christ, as it has lingered as a strange discord in the light and harmonies of modern life. From Waterville college in 1838 graduated a young man whose mother had designed him for the ministry. But he refused to enter it. One of the professors in Waterville, on a certain occasion, delivered a sermon in the chapel, in which he claimed that none but the elect could be saved ; that of professing Christians not more than one tn a hundred could reach heaven, and ?hat heathen people would have more consideration of tho Almighty in the future life than men of Christian na? tions who hear but do not profit by the word of God. The rules of the college made attendance upon religious serv- j ices in the chapel compulsory. After this sermon tho young man petitioned to be excused from further attendance on these services, giving as a reason that, according to the proportion stated, not above six persons in the college ? could be saved, and as thero were nin< worthy professors, all of whom wer< doctors of divinity, it would be pre sumption for him to hope for salvation and therefore in attending church h< was only making damnation the mor< sure and terrible. The name of that young man wai Benjamin F. Butler. Form and ritual and tradition an< ceremony may be one thing and Chris tianity another, as the following adver tisement taken from a recent nunabei of the St. James Gazette shows : Church Preferment-A valuable living to. sale in the suburbs of London. Sale urgent Prospect of early possession. [Could it bo pu more delicately?] Net income ?DG0. Ugh work. The best society. Practically no poor Beautiful modern church. Apply to-. Hie party which appeals to fora: and commandment and tradition hat made a sorry showing in this morts combat for the truth. But the truth ii so divine a thing even its profess?e friends can not slay it. INFIDELITY BALKED. Third-The fact begins to shine wit! increasing brilliancy that from a Sab? bath founded on a primal ordinance ol humanity infidelity can subtract noth? ing. The Christian world without author? ity of ritual or statute, moved by the resistless impulse of the free love to? ward Jesus Christ, changed the Sabbat! from Saturday to Sunday and made il the Lord's day-the day of his risen life -their day of joy and hope and peace of soul after the storm. This was thc beginning of the reign of the spirit. The letter had done its work. Tho new era of freedom and love and grace had como. The Sabbath is an ordinance of law -the divine law of nature. The reign of law is the reign of God. Therefore shall we remember the Sabbath day. The revelation of nature is the last work from God. You can not muffle the Sabbath bells of the world, because nature rings them. The master musicians of tho world are masters because their music throbs with tho rythzn of nature's heart. Their thought is ono with the eternal incoming of life. Therefore they mas? ter us. Their power never wanes. Beethoven in a masterpiece reproduces the trumpet calls of the battlefield and the echoing cannon. Rossini gives us a tempest, Wagner a storm with sigh? ing wind, rushing torrent and looping cascade. Rubinstein sweeps our souls with the wild music of a tornado. Sabbath bells are set to tho oratorio of creation. It is God's day bscause it is man's day. The Sabbath was made for man. Infidel assaults are in vain. We have only to ask who is man? What is man? Manhood is not eating and drinking and wallowing. This may be hog only. WHAT MANHOOD MEAN'S. Manhood means t!ic moral, the spirit? ual, tho something that makes human? ity more than animal. The Sabbath was made for man. All that can lift man toward his high destiny-this is of the Sabbath-the voice that soothes and startles and inspires, the thought that opens new worlds, song and story, music and art, mountain and plain and sea-all that speak of the invisible, the eternal-are for man and in man's great day of rest and inspiration ! Therefore the day must live with in? creasing power. I believe it because I believe in the future of humanity-of that majestic composite humanity of which this ex? position prophesies. For God has mad ? us of one blood, and ho will bring us to one triumph in the end. We have alien blood, I know, but the same great mother gave us birth. In the stor1 of our last disgraceful slaughter of II dians a writer tells us that at Pine Ridge there was an Irish soldier, kneel? ing with his comrades behind a bank, who was shot close to the heart. ''Faith.1 ' he exclaimed, "I'm shure it's all over wid me ! Rowl me round, boys, an make a fince of me. " The next moment he was dead. They obeyed him and used his body as a ram? part. Another incident is told of the same fight worthy of note. A squaw re? treated backward before the terrific fire of the white soldiers, holding both hands behind her. She fell at last, pierced with many bullets. 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